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Ü. of 0. Library Eugene, Oregon c Nyssa Gate City Journal VOLUME LVIII THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 21. 1963 The Sugar City BLM'S Announcement of 50% Raise In Grazing Fees on Federally Owned Land Is Protested by Western States Architect Visualizes Vo-Ag Ruilding Ranchers, Legislators Say Additional Funds Should All Be Used for Range Improvement 10 Cents Per Copy NUMBER 8 Nyssa's Amalgamated Refinery Seis Daily, Seasonal Production Records Believed Universal All-Time Highs Produces 2,145,000 One-Hundred-Lb. Bags In 135 Days With 18,000 in Single Day Bureau of Land Management’s Feb. 15 announcement of more than a 50 percent increase in grazing fees in 10 western states has been protested by ranchers and legislators of all states affected. The old fee of 19 cents per animal unit month was increas ed to 30 cents with 10 cents earmarked for range improve- -♦ments. Hearings have been held re cently in Reno, Nev., and in Washington, D.C., to gain in formation on a number of According to Plant Manager Henry Zobell, the Nyssa Amalgamated refinery set what is believed to be a produc tion record for one season when 2,145,000 one-hundred-pound bags of sugar were refined during this campaign that closed Thursday, Feb. 14. This was 368,000 more than the previous high of 1,777,000 in 1962. Other new records*---- -------------------- 1 established were 18,000 of the 100-pound bags refined in one day and 6595 tons of beets sliced during one 24-hour per Eagle Bowlers Mixed Tourney Begins Saturday Heart Information iod. This last figure was 188 tons To Re Broadcast more than the previous high es tablished in 1962. Friday by KSRV Zobell said contracts with problems involved under the Tay lor Act governing these lands. Many of the 30,000 permittees had It has been reported by Bill I expected an increase in the char Three Ontario doctors will par- growers had been approved and 1 ticipate in a heart information Hamilton, secretary of the Nyssa ges as they were well aware that J rehabilitation was needed on AóElóULTUEt- fcUILbUJÓ much of the acreage had been panel discussion from 7 to 7:30 Eagles Bowling league that 24 UiLVi SCHOOL. OkLAOU signed for already. The plant ex teams have registered to partici much of the range. But they ap p.m. Friday over radio station pects to handle approximately KSRV. pate in the Eagles Mixed tourna parently were surprised to learn that Secretary of Interior Stewart 28,000 acres again this year. ment which will begin at 5 p.m. Udall Drs. J. T. Burdic, Gus Tanaka planned to spend only 5 Saturday at the Sugar Bowl. Average yield per acre on the and Warren Hall will answer cents additional for this purpose AN ARCHITECT'S SKETCH of the Nyssa high would consist of classroom, shop, office, storage, 1962 crop was approximately 25.8 questions of a general nature The Saturday evening schedule when the increase was 11 cents. school vo-ag building as it would appear when rest rooms and fenced area. Estimated cost of tons. calls for team events only with phoned in from listeners regard- completed. The bond proposal calls for the build this structure is $55.000 including architect's and flights beginning at 5 and 7 o’ Ullman Protests Use of Increase ing to be located just north of the bus garage and legal fees. 1963 Outlook Good ing heart and circulatory diseases. A news release from the office clock. » ♦ The present outlook for beet A feature of the program will ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦- Doubles and singles contests of Congressman Al Ullman dated producers is good now, Zobell i be the playing of tape recordings will be rolled Sunday beginning Feb. 18 said, “The range users in said, with a sufficient supply of of normal and defective heart at 9 a.m., with final games start Eastern Oregon did not actively irrigation water practically assur beats as recorded by Dr. Burdic. oppose the increase because they ing at 4:30 n.m. ed, and with the world and do The Malheur county school sys the need for range mestic price of sugar higher. tem was selected by the Oregon Out-of-town bowlers will reg recognized improvement and felt some in State Board of Health for a re ister at the Eagles hall prior to crease And with arrangements being By W. L. McPARTLAND, Superintendent of Schools was justified if the addi search project to record heart beginning their team events. made now for laborers no worries There are several reasons why the school board feels that tional revenue was spent on the beats of school children. The rec- A potluck dinner for all bowl land. are anticipated to have sufficient the bond issue for the new vocational agriculture building and i ord technique, in principle, is ers and their partners will be field workers. biology classroom should be favorably accepted at this time. “ I am very much disturbed that served from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday Weather being suitable, most similar to the use of mass x-ray First, the present agriculture shop has been inadequate at the hall. Liz Peutz is chairman less than half of the increase was growers will start planting about clinics for detection of tubercu losis. In a like manner large of the food committee and bowl set aside for range improvement. for some years, both from a safety standpoint and the size March 1. groups can have their heart beats ers are asked to contact her re Because of the advanced stage classes that use the facilities. The new building will provide recorded on a magnetic tape garding food items they should of range depletion it’s unthink more than twice the present*------------------------------------- - able that every cent does not go 1 space, but perhaps more im which in turn will be “listened furnish. Group Hears Report logy, which is a required high to ” by specialists to screen for portant, will be built away school subject. This plan will A “mixer dance” will follow, for rehabilitation.” On Migrant Program; heart defects. beginning at 9:30. The dance, Udall Compares Charges from the main building. provide two more classrooms at Makes County Study Dr. Tanaka did basic research under chairmanship of Carlene Udall said that where most The recent fire in the ag shop the high school level at very rea Love, will be for all members of I stockmen using the federal range at Vale pointed out how danger sonable cost. Malheur Migrant Ministry com on a heart-lung machine that is the lodge. Music will be provided had been paying 19 cents, the U.S. ous it is to have the shop adjoin The cost of this program Is $95,- mittee met Feb. 13 in the Nyssa used in conjunction with heart by Emaline McGinnis and her Forest Service charges about 60 ing other classrooms. The aver 000. This includes the equipment Christian church. Chairman Ar I surgery while taking his resi orchestra. mand Larive reported on the mi dency in surgery at Kings Coun cents, the Bureau of Indian Af age size of the ag classes today On Sunday evening at 7 o’clock fairs $1.25 and up and the com demands that we provide more needed for the biology laboratory. grant workshop held Feb. 11-1'2 ty hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y. All of the equipment now used Dr. Hall attended several con a smorgasbord will be served to mercial rate is $3 and higher. in Boise. space and these classes will get by the agriculture department ferences and graduate courses all tourney bowlers and ex-Eagle Of special interest was a report larger in future years. He said this was a similar in will be transferred to the new bowlers. of the changing situation in the conducted by the Oregon Heart crease to that of 1951 when In Second, the high school enroll building. $95,000 worth of bonds Trophies and cash awards, fur terior Secretary Oscar L. Chap ment will jump from 367 students will be issued over a 15-year per migrant labor market. It is anti association in Portland. He was a member of the board of direc nished by Nyssa merchants, will man raised the monthly fee from at present to 430 or more two iod and will requir tax levy LEO GONYER. who retired on cipated that within a short time, tors of the Nevada Heart associa- be presented to winners following 8 to 12 cents. The price was set years from now and will remain possibly two years, the recruit - of about three-fourths of one mill. Feb. 5 from his work at Amal i tion prior to going to Ontario. the Sunday evening dinner. at 15 cents in 1955 and in 1958 at that level for the foreseeable This means that a person who gamated Sugar company's Nys I ment of labor for this area from This coming Sunday, Feb. 24, During the tournament, white a formula linking fees to livestock future. Classes average over 115 owns property with a value of I the southwest will be discontin- is “Heart Sunday" and marks elephant gifts will be given for prices resulted in a raise to 19 students from the first grade $10.000 will pay about $1.85 perl sa refinery. He came to Nyssa I ued. in the spring of 1938 and work the peak of the Heart fund various bowling achievements. cents. This committee is in the process drive. Hundreds of volunteers through the 10th grade. ed on construction of the local year to retire the bonds. These gifts will be provided by Classrooms at Reasonable Cost This program has been under I plant as a locomotive crane I of making a survey of actual con will call on their friends and members of the aerie and auxil Third, the biology department study for several years and the I operator. With the exception of ditions regarding migrants and neighbors Sunday afternoon for iary and are to be left at the is now conducting classes in the school board presents it now to | two summers at Grand Coulee newly settled migrants in Mal Heart fund conrtribufions. Each bowling alley prior to tourna chemistry and general science provide for the students that we I he worked continuously for the heur county. Health and educa volunteer will wear an official ment time, Hamilton said. Fur classrooms, and these rooms are know will be in the high school White Satin company as head tional problems were also discuss identification badge. ther information about these entirely inadequate for the needs starting next year. The cost is crane operator. Prior to joining ed. white elephant awards may be Next meeting will be at 10 a.m. of this department. Remodeling not great and should take care Amalgamated's staff, he had obtained from Bertha Taylor. the old ag shop into complete bio of the building needs at the junior worked for the Holly Sugar I March 13 in the Adrian Presby- New Box Numbers Bob Thornton, potato specialist logy classroom and laboratory high and high school level for as | company and Utah-Idaho Sugar terian church. Assigned to Patrons for Canyon and Owyhee counties, will make good use of this room far as can be seen. Toastmasters Present announces company. | ^11 interested persons are al Of Nyssa Route 1 a special panel discus but will also make room for all of ways welcome to attend these Lincoln Quotations New box numbers are being as sion program of special interest I the sciences in addition to bio- meetings. signed to patrons of Nyssa route Nyssa Toastmasters presenting to all farmers, particularly potato 1, according to Acting Postmas five-minute speeches last Thurs producers. This program, to be i day morning were Mel Nielsen, heard on KCID radio, Caldwell, ter Lee Dail. George Bear Wins By WALTER L. McPARTLAND, Superintendent of Schools He said the purpose was to Bob Palmer and Bob Sherbert. concerns such important topics as speed up mail sorting in the local Neilsen’s talk was entitled “What “Getting a Stand,” “Quality and Five competent Nyssa School system instructors are en $200 Jackpot Award post office and make this route the Farmers Are Buzzing About,” Production Practices,” “Potato gaged in introducing youngsters to their first formal educa I At Tuesday Drawing conform with practices recom in which he told the story of al Fertilization,” “Potato Irrigation” tion as first graders. They are all married and represent a George Bear, 213 Reece avenue, mended by postal authorities. falfa seed, growing. and many other pertinent topics Nyssa, was winner of the $200 Patrons will suffer no incon Bob Palmer discussed “The of importance to potato produc A pancake breakfast at Wil total of many years’ experience in the field of education. son ’ s Market Saturday, Feb. 23, jackpot prize Tuesday at Nyssa venience in getting their mail if MRS. ZETTE BUMGARNER at-* - Gentle Art of Caring,” which per tion. will be the kickoff in the fund tended high school in Phelps, Ky. from College of Idaho. She has Bank Days drawing. the old numbers are used, Dail tained to being interested in peo Appearing with Thornton will drive for Baseball for Kids in She received her degree from East taught 20 years, the last two of Other names drawn but not said, but as fast as practicable ple. Kentucky Teachers college and which have been in the Nyssa present to win were M. C. Hooper, new numbers should be used. “Vocal Variety” was topic of be Dr. Richard Ohms, University Nyssa this summer. the speech given by Bob Sher- of Idaho Extension potato spe The program now offers super received a Life Secondary Certi system. Mr. Cary works at the route 1, Ontario, $10 second award With this in mind, mimeographed Roland Portman, exten vised training and recreation for ficate from Kentucky. Mrs. Bum sugar factory. and Mrs. Roy Jarvis, route 2, lists of patrons and new box num bftrt, who told of the various cialist; sion entomologist with the Uni over 100 boys, ages 9 to 15 years garner has taught for 28 years, bers are being furnished local mood setting tones of voices. MRS. MARGUERITE LESLIE Wilder, third prize of $5. Table topics presented by Don ! versity of Idaho; and Dorrel Lar of age. All proceeds from the 14 of which have been in the received her diploma from Eas Jackpot will revert to the $50 firms who do considerable mail Bates were “Quotations from Ab son, extension irrigationist with breakfast will be donated to the Nyssa system, Mr. Bumgarner tern Oregon college She has had minimum next Tuesday afternoon. ing on the route. baseball fund as the food is being operates a farm southwest of 10 years of teaching experience. raham Lincoln’s address to the U of I. This program is 45 minutes in supplied by the wholesalers. Nyssa. Illinois legislature having to do This is Mrs. Leslie’s first year in with the Missouri compromise.” length and will be heard on KCID MRS. GLADYS ENGLEHART the Nyssa system, but she is no Dick Wilson, store manager and radio at 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23. ( Jeff Ford served as toastmaster chairman of the committee spon went to high school at Sheldon, stranger here as her husband, and Pete Broers was a guest of on Sunday, Feb. 24, at 1 p.m. and soring the baseball program, says Iowa, and received her bachelor Jim, was in the Nyssa bank for again at 9 p.m. ( customers will be served all the of science degree in education several years before moving to the group. pancakes they can eat plus coffee from Eastern Oregon college in Ontario. By ANTHONY YTURRL Stat* Senator or cold drink and sausage, all for 1959. She has taught for 24 years, MRS. I.ANA SCHENK graduat Rome and I celebrated our 21st wedding anniversary on 25 cents. 10 of which have been in Nyssa. ed from Las Vegas, Nev., high He said $100 was donated from She has one son and two grand school and received a bachelor of Feb. 14. We had a pleasant surprise. Unknown to rne, and by last year’s breakfast toward send children. Her husband, formerly science degree in education from a ruse played on Reme, the senators had her seated at my ing the Nyssa band to the World’s a rancher above Harper, is now Brigham Young university. She lesk on the Senate floor when I arrived from committee. We Fair and that he hoped to beat retired. has taught one year. Her hus-1 were given a gift and our anniversary was recognized by the By ROBERT F. SMITH, State Representative that figure this year. MRS. LUCILLE CARY receiv band, Larry, is an old - timer Senate. Since it was Oregon’s birthday as well as Valentine’s Without question the most important item of the past ed her diploma from the high around Nyssa. Lana is known in I.iv, the Senate sang “Happy* week’s activities in the Legislature was the Joint House and VALE. NYSSA YOUTHS school at Clearwater, Neb., and school circles as the “young Mrs. | Birthday, Oregon,” pendent associations and provide Senate meeting which heard Senator Wayne Morse and Gov SUFFER FRACTURED LEGS her bachelor of science degree Schenk. their own fire protection if they Also, during this session the ernor Mark Hatfield discuss the latest developments concem- Keith Hedin, 7-year-old son of desire. If this occurs, the land first really serious debate oc Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hedin of Vale, the Boardman Space Age Project. will foot the full cost, curred in the Senate. I played owners whatever it may be. The state has invested over a million dollars, plus land ex was admitted to Malheur Memor a part in the debate which result- ial hospital last Friday for treat I spoke to a crowd of about 250 changes and other non-mone-* (■d in sustaining the governor ’ s ment of multiple fractures of his veto of a law which would have persons at Oregon City on Lin tary values, to secure property repeals federal income taxes and leg. The lad was injured at school takes government out of business. changed the definition of “in- coln’s birthday. My theme was along the Columbia river near when he became entangled in a X economy in government as well sanity” in criminal cases. Boardman for lease to Boeing Requests Changes in Beef Council merry-go-round. He was released as the need to approach every A large part of the week was problem I In appearing before the House Saturday from the hospital. Aircraft company. with the test of "Is it devoted toward ironing out the Billy Marcum, 5-year-old son of Negotiations recently bogged Committee on Agriculture I was reasonable? it realistic? Does problems that cattlemen have had it make sense Is and down in Washington, DC. in con successful in requesting that the Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Marcum, was can we afford with the extremely high assess nection with the Corps of Engin committee propose a bill to amend admitted to the hospital Saturday it? ” ments made on range lands for eers regarding water frontage. existing beef council legislation. suffering from a leg fracture. He fire protection. Ike Thayer, Don 1 think the people of Oregon The governor and Senator Morse The amendments center around stepped in a hole while playing ald Oakes, Floyd McBride, Carrol are becoming ever more aware of jointly announced that this im I two subjects. First, concerning I in the yard at the family home. Locey and Bill McNulty testified the cost of government and taxes passe had been overcome and an the eligibility to vote on a refer- His condition was listed as good before a Senate committee ex- and that the Legislature has a other step taken toward culmina j endum, existing law provides that by hospital attendants Wednesday duty to bear this in mind as it pressing their disapproval. I only those who contribute to the afternoon. He will be hospitalized tion of the Boardman issue. acts upon taxes and expenditures. Law to Be Changed The past week has been de ! beef council for a period of 24 for several weeks. Protest Removal of Funds cidedly more active in connection I months are eligible to vote. It now appears that the law ! My amendment would provide A large delegation from Baker WARD EXPLAINS PROJECT with passage of bills and public | will be changed to place an abso hearings. The first night hearing J ! that anyone could vote regardless School Superintendent Glenn lute ceiling of 5 cents per acre on county was in Salem Friday to was held last Wednesday, 7:30 to of whether or not he asked for Ward met Monday evening with lands to which protection is af protest the removal of $100,000 a refund from the beef council. NYSSA'S STAFF OF FIRST GRADE TEACHERS includes Mrs. Adrian Farm Bureau members to forded. More important, perhaps,, from the state ----- engineer - ----- ’s budget ------ 10:30. in connection with the Lib- erty amendment. The Liberty: Secondly, the number of people explain the proposed building Zette Bumgarner (seated) and (left io right) Mrs. Gladys Englehart. is the fact that local areas may This money would have been (Continued on Page 7) 1 project for Adrian schools. Mrs. Lucille Cary, Mrs. Marguerite Leslie and Mrs. Lana Schenk. be permitted to form their inde-1 (Continued on Page 7) amendment, among other things. Superintendent Discusses Advantages Of Construction Under Proposed Plan Retires Potato Panel Talks Broadcast by KCID Saturday, Sunday Baseball for Kids Pancake Breakfast Set for Saturday Know Y”our Faculty I Sen. Ylurri Describes Lighter Side : 01 Legislative Activities at Capitol Boardman Space Age Project Studied At Combined Session of Legislature
